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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ <p>The core idea behind <strong>hex</strong> is to be a really small language for experimenting with the <a
href="https://concatenative.org" target="_blank">concatenative</a> programming paradigm and at the same time being somewhat useful for practical things like creating short scripts or be used as glue code for automating common tasks.</p> + <h3>How hex was born</h3> <p>When I first implemented <a href="https://min-lang.org" target="_blank">min</a>, the intent was to create a minimal language, hence the name. The reality however turned out to be very different: in no time, I found myself adding a lot of syntactic sugar, complex data types, support for XML processing and HTTP client and@@ -19,13 +20,29 @@ string support, and then... well, the boilerplate wasn't too bad. A few tweaks here and there and I was able
to improve a few things, and in a few days I realized that I had re-learnt some C programming skills I hadn't been using in the past 20 years!</p> <p>So there you have it. A language that is purely concatenative, truly minimalist and yet powerful enough, limited - to 64 native symbols and yet manage to be somewhat useful, hopefully. The fact that I could get it to compile to + to 64 native symbols and yet manages to be somewhat useful, hopefully. The fact that I could get it to compile + to WASM with just a few hours worth of extra work (mainly to manage stdin properly) also meant that this little thing also has its own browser-based <a href="/play">playground</a>!</p> <p>The only annoying thing is that it only understands hexadecimal integers. Well... I figured I could take a little <em>poetic license</em>, and introduce a small quirk that would justify its nice, almost magical, three letter - name!</p> - <p>Happy hexxing!</p> - <p><em>-- Fabio</em></p> - + name! + </p> + <h3>About the logo</h3> + <p> + The hex logo is a small ASCII art representing a horizontal stack of three hexagons, each one representing a + stack element. + <pre><code> _*_ _ + / \hex\* + *\_/_/_/ + *</code></pre>It also features four <em>stars</em>, representing + the the 64 native symbols provided by the language (four times 16, so <code>0x40</code> in hexadecimal format). + They also hint at the magic of the language itself, and the dual meaning of the word <em>hex</em> (as in + <em>hexadecimal</em> and <em>spell</em>). + </p> + <h3>About this web site</h3> + <p>This web site aims to be very simple and minimalist, like hex itself. It is written in HTML with minimal CSS, and + it is processed using a minimal <a href="https://github.com/h3rald/hex/blob/master/scripts/web.hex" + target="_blank">static-site generator</a> implemented in hex itself. + </p> </article>